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Weekend Discussion Thread: Your Favorite Shadowrama MomentsAlert reader Cam suggests:
My fave: In Magic Voyage of Sinbad, Crow returns from his lifelong quest thingy in hilarious fashion, flying across the screen from top left and crashing to the floor. Cracks me up every time. What’s yours? Keep those topics comin’! 66 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: Your Favorite Shadowrama Moments”Commenting at Satellite News
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Definitely when Mike turned into a puppet during the worm hole experience in Prince of Space. He was just so cute in the theater sitting between Crow and Servo, with that little antenna on his head. And when he shifted back to normal again, that was a great touch.
An early one. At the end of #102 The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy a Demon Dog
appears in the theater and scares Joel and the bots out.
A foretaste of others (like the Giant Tom Servo appearing when
Mike tried to teach the bots about forced perspective).
One word: Timmy.
Mike shooting pool in The Girl in Gold Boots.
Servo kissing people!
I love the Forced Perspective bit they do during the credits of Future War…
Scissors are a CROCODILE!
T-rex toy is a GIANT MANEATER! Roaaar!
Dog toy is the SATELLITE OF LOVE!
I like when Joel would ‘lift’ himself up on some object in the film, and look at all the neat stuff behind it.
Mike putting up the cardboard cutouts of himself and the bots in Hobgoblins.
Bartending Joel in The Wild Rebels.
Mike brawling with the bots during the end credits to Space Mutiny.
Mike calling tech support at the end of Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.
Joel running down the highway in Warrior of the Lost World.
Tom as a leggy toaster strudel in Devil Doll.
Mike cracking up during The Brute Man.
When Timmy enters the theater…
When Joel yells into the nostril of some guy…think it was in The Castle of Fu Manchu…
When Joel is “running” down the highway in Warrior of the Lost World….
When Joel covers up the mouth of the singer in The Robot vs.the Aztec Mummy….
end of ‘Space Mutiny’ the big ’80s fight. love it when Mike tries to calm things down and Servo yells ‘yes it is you hair feathering freak!’ very close second the tale of ‘poodle hair’ and ‘rubber lips’ from ‘Soooooulllltaaaaakerrrr!!’
the flying Judge Wapner from TotA.
It’s inconsequential, but I like when Mike throws the Eight of Chris Lemmon after coming back into the theatre (in THE BEGINNING OF THE END), which I didn’t even notice until after many, many viewings.
#3: that’s two words! :-)
I also like whenever Servo starts kissing one of the figures on the screen. Creepy Girl comes to mind.
Joel holding up the Batman sound effect cutouts during one of the Commando Cody segements in Project Moon Base. Closely followed by him holding up cue cards for Dr. Bellows later during the movie.
Joel reaching up and trying to help put a book back up on a shelf in Mighty Jack.
Joel running down the highway in Warrior of the Lost World.
Mike punching a bat in the gut in It Lives by Night.
Joel with the giant dart in Commando Cody.
For some reason I like the occasional moments where we can tell Joel is wearing his glasses in the theatre, but I equally do not like when we can see Mike’s headset microphone.
How’s that for strangest argument in the Joel vs Mike flamewar?
Joel taking a peek over the black bar in the Cave Dwellers opening credits.
I’ll give another vote for Joel providing sound effects for the hearing impaired during the Commando Cody installment shown during Project Moonbase.
One of my favorites is during the credits of “Delta Knights” when “Eggs” is snapping chalk lines and explaining to Pearl what he recommends for his other customers “conducting pain-related experiments in a theater-type setting.” (“It’s-s-s… not gonna be cheap.”)
Mike tilts Tom’s head into the meat grinder in the Home Economics Story.
Joel fiddles with the space controls in Women of the Prehistoric Planet.
Joel and the bots flip out over the incoming gate in Ring of Terror.
And many many recoils at the bad breath of the ultra=closeups.
There is no possible way I could remember which episode, but Joel or Mike stuck his finger UP the nose of a man on the screen.
Eddie standing off to the side, smoking, draining beer cans, and throwing them in Time Chasers.
Also, I always love when a song starts up in a movie, and Mike or Joel and the bots start “dancing.” The sight of Servo bopping up and down with his inarticulate arms flapping at his sides always makes me smile. :-))
There’s a funny moment towards the end of “Wild Rebels”, where one of the characters points a gun at the camera, and the end of the gun is pointed RIGHT AT SERVO, who naturally freaks out, and hides under the seat.
Also, from “Final Justice”:
“HELP! IT’S A MALTESE CAR! RUUUUN!!!!”
There were at least two occasions, “The Starfighters” and “The Leech Woman,” where Mike and Servo waltz together. Such charming moments.
Also in City Limits when Joel uses an umbrella to cover up a naked woman in the water tower.
In The Crawling Hand, Servo is directly in front of a closeup of the girlfriend and says, “Hi, I’m Tom Servo!” The girls screams her head off, and I laugh mine off.
Joel running down the highway in Warrior of the Lost World. Gets me every time.
Also clever, giant Servo from High School Big Shot.
1. In Outlaw, Mike wags his finger just as Cabot does when he’s trying to figure out where he is (back on Corroba) (spelling?)
2. Anytime Joel or Mike punches someone on the jaw or picks at a mole (Night of the Blood Beast comes to mind)
3. When Tom gets tossed out of his seat because of relentless and annoying singing (something about the ferry man in High School Big Shot?)
Joel dancing to the go-go music from the dune buggy scene in Eegah.
Mike patting the close-up of Kalgan’s sinister face like, “Okay pal” in Space Mutiny.
It’s a tough call, but I’ll go with the “He’s a Failure” dance during “Day the Earth Froze”.
Oh, there’s so many:
Timmy in Fire Maidens From Outer Space
The cardboard cut-outs in Hobgoblins
Mike standing up to get a better look at Butch Deadlift’s muscles in Space Mutiny
Pearl being in the Theater in Quest For The Delta Knights
Forced perspective at the end of Future War
How about Joel getting up to look over the weird letterbox titles for Cave Dwellers? “Hey, there’s all sorts of neat stuff going on back here, guys.”
And I’m not sure if this counts, but Tom introducing himself to the “really smart” Swedish babe in The Crawling Hand when she falls into a closeup cracks me up every time. (I love those jokes that feel ad-libbed but were really precisely planned and timed. They had to be used sparingly, since doing it too often would ruin the faux off-the-cuff feel of the show.)
I like when Joel, in a bizarre combination of nonchalance and anger, breaks off Crow’s arm and tosses it across the theater for making a bad joke during the first Gamera movie.
Also, I love Servo dancing and singing to himself while Mike and Crow discuss “The Final Sacrifice: The Series.” (Or is it “Night Mistress?” ;-) )
@#34 / VikingWoman:
It’s ‘Cloochy and the Lieutenant’. We’ll work on that. ;-)
Joel opening an umbrella to cover up the naughty bits in the opening of ‘City Limits’.
It wasn.t a silhouette moment per se but when Cambot did the ESPN-style sports ticker during the film Sidehackers.
Also, whenever Joel would do the squeeky clean sound effects during a film.
There’s a moment in one of the Godzilla films when a woman is standing in the foreground with her breastacaboobical area right next to Crow’s head. Crow leans to the right and slowly opens his beak. Joel silently reaches over and pulls him back. It happens twice, and I somehow missed seeing it for years.
I’m surprised no one has suggested:
Mike’s big hair in “Incredibly Mixed Up Zombies…”
or even Joel yelling at the screen during “Manos”: “Do something! God!”
The episode where Joel opens his umbrella to cover some skinny dipping babes. I believe it was episode 403 City Limits.
Eddie Nelson!
http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Eddie_Nelson
Mike tosses Servo in High School Big Shot.
– In “Women of the Prehistoric Planet”, Joel reaches up on Wendell Corey’s arms and says “Hold me!” It’s such a weird gag, I half expected him to hover in midair the first time I saw it.
– In “The Beatniks”, Eddie sings “Anything…” and Joel riffs “…is better than this crap!” and the little lounge singer-style hand movements he does with it have me on the floor every time.
– Crow trying to eat a guy on the beach in “Alien from LA”. “MmmmNOM!”
– Crow putting his ear to the track and listening for the train in “Last Clear Chance”. “I hear it!”
– The shot in “The Chicken of Tomorrow” where it looks like Servo, Mike, and Crow are sitting in the back row of the poultry auction. “Put your hand up! Buy a chicken!” “I want one…”
– Mike and the bots rocking back and forth to the carnival music in “Revenge of the Creature”. They just do it for like a minute, and it keeps getting funnier the longer it goes. :D
I love anytime in the Sci-Fi era when something happens to either Mike or one of the bots in a host segment and it carries over into a whole theater segment. Notable examples are Tom as a toaster streudel in Devil Doll and Mike as a tiny robot in Prince of Space.
I’m laughing out loud simply reading these posts.
Shadowrama translates so memorably to skull cinema.
@ #26 et al.: There’s a very brief moment where Joel’s aim is off and you get a view of her hinder. Not that I was going out of my way looking for it. :sweat:
I’ll also add in when a demon dog entered the theater near the end of Robot Vs. the Aztec Mummy.
Near the end of “Gamera” Tom & Crow tease Joel by singing the MST3K theme song while Gamera is shot into space. Joel retaliates by ripping off one of Crow’s arms and he smacks the Bots with them.
Timmy showing up in the theater.
In a theater segment during “Hobgoblins” Mike has to constantly chase after Tom and Crow as they try to leave. When Mike finally gets them to sit he says “We’re going to sit here and watch this movie.” Right after that Commercial Sign begins and Mike yells “D’OH!”.
I’ve always loved the way Joel interacted with the movie in the early episodes, especially when he holds up the cutout onomatopoeias — BIFF! POW! OOF! — like a Batman fight scene during the lab fight scene in Radar Men From The Moon.
Right now I’m watching Being From Another Planet, and really digging the way Crow and Servo get all scared and freaked out and try to flee the theater when they show the green-tinted night-vision POV of the ancient alien in the boiler room, and Joel has to corral them and get them back into their seats.
The all-timer for me, though, is in High School Big Shot, when Mike and Crow get fed up with Servo bursting out into “Don’t Pay The Ferryman”, and Mike snatches Servo out of his seat and launches him out of the theater.
Y’mean, like during the opening credits sequence in Cavé Dwellers, where he lifts himself up over the edge of the weird letterbox cropping to see what’s going on behind it? “Hey, there’s a lot going on back there! You oughta check it out…!”
Joel does that gag, too, in Wild Rebels: “Hey, guys, I hear a big stupid ending coming!”